Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1995, Page 79

Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1995, Page 79
THE FAROESE WHALE NAMES 83 (Blondal) and synonymous Norw. troll- hval. There are no medieval records. *VAGN or *VOGN f. Killer Whale = BÓGHVÍTUHVALUR The one-time presence of this term is presupposed by vagn- or vognhogg, a com- pound found twice in the Faroese record. The first occurence takes us back to the Seyðabræv of 1298, ed. J.H.W. Poulsen and U. Zachariasen (1971) 51: hvalflystri pa er ver kollum vagn hogg. A later addition (p.5) offers a commentary: hvalflyster, stycke af hvalen som flyter i wágen, vagnhog, det manfár huggafritt i uti vágen. On the basis of this Fritzner defines vagnhogg n ‘Stykke som en forfolgende vagnhvalr har hugget ud af en Hvals Legeme ’, where vagnhvalr is, of course, the Killer Whale; it survives in Icel. vagnhvalur. The name is further present in Norw. staurvagn see STEYRHVALUR. In the second occurence, however, the compound vagn- or vognhøgg has itself be- come a whale name: Resen 73: Quæsing eller Vaagenhog; er en liden SpringHval med hvide Plætter i, har Tænder, som ligne Hunde-Tænder. The latter equation with the Bottlenose Dolphin HVESSINGUR is clearly mistaken, the description is that of the Killer Whale, a sense also seen in Norw. vagnhogg, quoted as a Helgeland term by Aasen, Norsk Ordbog (1873). ON vagn-, as attested above, is the same word as Swedish dial. vagn ‘distaff’; it refers to the distinctive fm of this whale, taller than that of any other cetacean, cf. MM p. 33. For similarly motivated names see under MASTRARFISKUR. ÆÐUHVALUR Killer Whale = BÓGHVÍ- TUHVALUR. A name, formed with æða ‘eider’, inspired by sightings of the whale taking eiders. These diving ducks, common in the Faroes, feed in full view close to the shore where they are in danger from the whale in question, see further under KJAFTHVÍTI. The present name is uniquely Faroese, the record going back to the beginning of this century, but implied a little earlier (1887) by a Danish translation ‘Edderfuglehval’, see under KOBBA- HVALUR. Acknowledgement For help with various points I am most grateful to Car- men Blacker, Anne Duekilde, Gunnlaugur Ingólfsson, Anfinnur Johansen, Carl Chr. Kinze, and Magne Myrhen. References Blondal, S. 1920-1924. Islandsk-dansk Ordbog. Debes L. 1963. Færoæ et Færoa reserata (1673). ed, J. Rischel. Falk, H. and Torp, A. 1911-12. Norwegisch-danisches etym. Worterbuch. Fritzner, J. 1972. Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog, I-III (1886.1896), IV ed. F. Hødnebø. Jacobsen, M.A. and Matras, Chr. 1961. Føroysk-donsk Orðabók2 Kalkar, O. Ordbog til det ældre danske Sprog (1881- 1918). Lockwood, W.B. 1944. ‘Etymological Notes on some Scandinavian Whale Names’, Maal og Minne 1-2, 1944. Poulsen, J.H.W. 1974. Føroysk-donsk Orðabók. Eykabind. Resen, P.H. 1972. Atlas danicus. Færøeme, ed. J. Rischel and P. Skárup. Ryggi, M.D. á. 1935. Dýralæra.
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